BlogAdda’s Spicy Saturday Picks – Jul. 25, ’09

Spicy SaturdayVannakkam (Hello in Tamil). It is a beautiful Saturday here and it was a sunny day yesterday. After all the brouhaha by the BMC over the clashing of high tides and heavy rains which in turn will cause imminent floods, all the warnings and the hype factor caused by media went Kaput :D. Currently, Proto is on at Pune and we wish all the best for startups showcasing there. BTW, we won the Ipod shuffle and the Wi-Fi T-Shirt for the live coverage/tweeting in the previous edition. As always we are back with our Spicy Saturday Picks – the best blogposts from the Indian Blogosphere this week!

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Interview with Nikhil Narayanan

The blogger who is interviewed this week is an Al-Avalathi as he calls himself :). He is an  NITian and works for HP as a Customer Insights Consultant. He is one of the early adopters of Internet and a big fan of Google and Wikipedia. He blogs at Nikhil’s Musings. A blogger who stays in Bangalore but has his heart in Kerala. Here are Nikhil’s witty answers for you.

Nikhil Narayanan

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Movies you don’t know you’re going to love…

Kanupriya Sindhu

Movie watching is certainly one the most elementary leisure activities enjoyed by many like me but despite being an avid movie viewer my movie consumption has always been limited to mainly Bollywood or Hollywood ones.

Till recently, I was blissfully unaware of the depth of this genre known as “world cinema”, in fact to me world cinema has always been synonymous to parallel cinema or something which is vague & esoteric. I had watched only counted number of world cinemas in past & that too very famous ones; based on those movies I had this perception of world cinema being a genre in which you’ll never know when a movie has started & when it ended. But how wrong I was!

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BlogAdda’s Tangy Tuesday Picks – Jul. 21, ’09

Tangy Tuesday PicksAbhivandan (Hello in Hindi). We were greeted this morning with the news that Gangubai Hangal, who mesmerized audiences with her melodious voice for over six decades is no more. May her soul RIP.

The Astrologers will be in demand today & will be featured on all the news channels with their views on the Solar eclipse which will happen tomorrow. Eclipse or Sunshine, we would be here with our top picks week after week to serve you the best.

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Perky Tweets – Jul. 20, ’09

BlogAdda's perky TweetsThe previous week winners to #perkytweets were the lucky few to catch the Harry Potter 6 Premiere :). We are here to make your Mondays Perkier – you read/listen to this and your whole week  becomes productive, sounds fun, eh?

Our Perky Tweets will make your Monday a happy one and your tweets win goodies as well, courtesy Radio One & BlogAdda. Do not forget to  tune in to 94.3 FM Radio One tonight and listen to the perky tweets read out by Malini on her show ‘Malini till Midnight’Follow us on twitter to know who are the lucky ones to win the goodies from Radio One 🙂

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BlogAdda’s Spicy Saturday Picks – Jul. 18, ’09

Spicy SaturdayNamaskaaramulu (Hello in Telugu). The rains finally hit Mumbai and the city was crippled with less than 200 mm of rain. Where are the crores of rupees spent by the BMC reflected? Taj hotel is abuzz today with activity as Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived :). We ca guess what tomorrow’s headlines in newspapers would be. 🙂 Or keep watching India TV to know the ‘insightful’ headlines!!

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